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...With a household income of about $27,000 a year, including both Marie's factory wages and John's pension as a janitor, the Krafts contend they are too poor to fight the lawsuit. And they continue to deny the bigotry charge. "I work with a mixture of everything, and we get along fine," says Marie. In fact, since January 1993 the Krafts have filed 12 police complaints against the Ramoses, charging them with various acts of harassment and intimidation, but police dismissed the complaints...
...have a vivid memory of watching the last bowl victory. it was against Louisiana State in the Sugar Bowl, and the Huskers won. In the Brown household, it was a joyous New Year...
...article also stated that Hosein said, "Men must have authority, and women must submit." What was left out of the quotation and article was his qualification of the statement; he went on to say that while some of the roles of men and women in the household are different, this does not make either sex superior or inferior to the other. In fact, he explicitly denied the superiority of man. Presenting the analogy of a factory, the Imam said that a man is like the "security guard" of his family, while a woman acts as "manager." In different circumstances...
...skillsin the U.S. is so bad that an entire generation of children may not be able to write coherently as adults, the American Federation of Teachers warned today. A new AFT study, the "Writing Report Card," found that 78 percent of teachers say parents and other adults in the household must help children develop their writing skills. "Many students at each grade level continue to have serious difficulty in producing effective informative or persuasive writing," the report says. Among the suggested retro-remedies: encourage kids to write letters instead of making phone calls, and have them write down messages...
...Household names on the marquee do not, of course, guarantee dramatic splendor inside. The Branagh play is a trifle that searches for nightmare poetry in "plain old American-Irish English" and for political significance in the story of a Belfast punk (Paul Ronan) obsessed by the grit and grace of Jimmy Cagney. It finds none of the above, lost as it is in a muddle of moralizing and attitudinizing. But it shares a potent theme with the season's cannier off-Broadway ventures: that star worship is a virus, carried by the popular media and infecting anyone...